In Andernach about 50,000 prisoners of all ages were held in an open field surrounded by barbed wire. The men I guarded had no shelter and no blankets; many had no coats. They slept in the mud, wet and cold, with inadequate slit trenches for excrement.

“[T]here was just an explosion [in the south tower]. It seemed like on television [when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions.”- Firefighter Richard Banaciski

The terror outrages in Britain last year may not have been the work of “Muslim extremists”. A series of virtually unreported events in a Birmingham hotel suggest the covert involvement of Britain’s intelligence agencies in orchestrating events

Gen. Leonid Ivashov was Chief of Staff of Russian armed forces when the 9/11 attacks took place, but he says, they weren’t carried out by Osama or al-Qaeeda. The most likely culprits, says the General, were transnational mafias and international oligarchs

It doesn’t even begin with an “R,” like members of the first family (Renegade, Renaissance, Radiance, Rosebud.)

According to… well, I can’t really say to whom, but Rahm Emanuel’s code name is “Black Hawk.”

The Secret Service allows its protectees to choose the code name used by its agents, but Rahm’s was assigned to him during the Democratic National Convention, and he decided not to change it.

All other code names are assigned by the White House Military Office (through the White House Communications Agency.http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/05/revealed_rahm_emanuels_secret_service_code_name.php